. >> linda d'avirro. he >> thank you for the opportunity to come up today. i hope also to be reappointed to prosac. as far as my background, i have more than 24 years in corporation and public service, and that is with pacific telephone. when i started there i was in management for 24 years and i had the opportunity to do project management, capital budgets, many, many different things. but my last six years with pacific bell were with state regulatory. so, i had a lot of experience with witness prep, case management, late case management, issues management, and outreach to communities. so, i think to summarize, that gives me a little qualification to do what i'm doing presently. after i took early retirement, i went into hospitality and negotiated corporate contracts with travel managers who wanted to send their employees to different hotels for the two companies i worked with. so, again, i have that sort of a background. so, i know about [speaker not understood] and a lot of what we he do on prozac has to do with negotiating and working compromises and lis